Improvement in car-washers



E. W. LEVENS.

Bar ashers.

Patented Dec124,1872.

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` lfm/Emma WITNESSES AM. PHOT0 LITHOGRAPHI6 COANXGSEORNES FHUCES ERAS'IUS W. LEAVENS, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT iN CAR-WASHERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. llfLQ, dated December 24, 18722A To all tchom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, ERAsTUs W. LnAvENs,

of Boston, in the county ot' Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Gar-Vlf'ashers, or Brushes for similar uses, of which the following is a specification:

Nature and Object of the Invention.

The nature of the invention consists in constructing a brush with arow of short projecting bristles, thickly set in the riin or h'llet of an ordinary brush, known as a car-washer, and brushes for similar uses; said row of bristles standing at or nearly at right angles to the lower surface of the brush in which the bristles are set; and the purpose or object of the invention is to protect glass and wood-work from injury in washing the same. Various devices have been employed to serve the same pur pose, especially India rubber iu the shape of a band held in place by a groove; and the iinprovement consists in the use of bristles so arranged in the fillet of the brush-head as to answer the purpose intended.

Description of thc Accompanying Draw-ing.

Figure lis an elevation, showing the form of the invention. Fig. 2 is a section ofthe same.

The letter A represents thebrush-head a af, the bristles; b I), the short projecting row of bristles; and c c, the furrow into or toward which the short bristles are drawn.

General Description.

The brush is of the ordinary form, with round head, as generally used in car-washers and similar uses, although I do not conline the invention to any particular form ot' brush. Fig. 1 in the accompanying drawing shows the brush complete without the handle. In order to fasten the short projecting bristles I cut a furrow in that part ofthe brush-headin which the bristles are fastened, near the rim or outer edge. (See Fig. 2 at c c.) The holes for the bristles run into the furrow, and then the bristles are drawn in with wire or its equivalent; or the bristles may be cemented.' The top part of the brush-head is then fastened to the lower part in the ordinary way.

'Ihcse short projecting bristles7 thickly set in therim or fillet of the brush-head, prevent the wood ofthe brush from striking the glass or furniture; and are an improvement upon any inode ot' accomplishing this purpose now in use.

I claim- A car-washer, or brush jfor similar uses, pro- -vided with a row of, bristles around the pe riphery of the-brush-head, and constructed substantially in the manner and for the pur- Witnesses:

JOHN D. TOWLE, J. L. NEWTON. 

